Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Slovenia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Gastr Del Sol to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
Bootsy Collins,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The United States of America,
Pet Shop Boys,
Iggy Pop,
Sound Behaviour,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Delta 5,
Boz Scaggs,
Gabor Szabo,
Y Pants,
The Sonics,
The Barracudas,
The Grass Roots,
Althea and Donna,
FM Einheit,
Neil Young,
Soulsonic Force,
Jerry's Kids,
Traffic Nightmare,
Juan Atkins,
Laurel Aitken,
Godley & Creme,
Lindisfarne,
Eric Copeland,
Moebius,
Vladislav Delay,
Outsiders,
The Doors,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Roy Ayers,
Derrick May,
Funky Four + One,
Matthew Halsall,
Black Flag,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lalo Schifrin,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Blossom Toes,
Barclay James Harvest,
Severed Heads,
Khruangbin,
Roger Hodgson,
Kas Product,
L. Decosne,
Royal Trux,
ABBA,
cv313,
Babytalk,
Fat Boys,
Robert Görl,
Thee Headcoats,
Scientists,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ralphi Rosario,
Stiv Bators,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ken Boothe,
The Busters,
Camberwell Now,
DJ Sneak,
Minutemen,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.